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TaglineAn agentic iPhone home screen that replaces your static icon grid with AI widgets that proactively surface health, calendar, finance, and local context — without you having to open a single app.AI-powered networked notes. Roam with a brain.Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.Run LLMs locally. One-line install, GUI optional.
CategoryAgentsProductivityAgentsDev Platform
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)$10/mo$500/moFree + open source
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Knowledge workers + thinkers who want AI in their second brain.Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.Devs wanting offline/local LLMs for privacy or experimentation.
Strengths
  • Ambient, proactive intelligence delivered via native iOS widgets — no app-switching required
  • Cross-domain context: health, calendar, email, finances, and local recommendations in one layer
  • Works within iOS permission model (no jailbreak or sideloading), making App Store approval plausible
  • Strong pre-launch signal: 25k+ waitlist and backing from a16z, True Ventures, and SV Angel
  • AI auto-links related notes
  • Generates backlinks + summaries
  • Clean, minimal UX
  • Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs
  • Handles multi-hour engineering work
  • Reports back with what it did
  • Run Llama, Mistral, Qwen, etc. on your laptop
  • Simple CLI + API
  • Hardware-aware (picks the right quant)
Weaknesses
  • Still pre-launch / beta — zero proven track record and no public pricing yet
  • iPhone-only by design, which immediately locks out half the smartphone market
  • Battery drain and privacy concerns from constant ambient context scanning are real and unresolved
  • Expensive for just notes
  • Smaller community than Obsidian
  • Expensive
  • Best for well-scoped tasks
  • Not for solo hobbyists
  • Needs beefy laptop for larger models
  • Speed way behind cloud APIs
Kai's verdictThe concept is genuinely compelling — turning the home screen into a living AI layer is a smarter bet than yet another chat interface — but this is vaporware until it ships publicly and we see whether Apple's sandbox lets it breathe. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)A-tier. Niche but beloved. If you've outgrown Notion, try this.A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.S-tier for local inference. If you care about privacy or want to tinker, install this today.
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